Sansei Electro
 

Went to the attic tonight looking for tubes and found this laying around. No idea where I got it. The pic is from another site but the same radio. Early 60's vintage. Very lo-fi.

Looking around the web, I found a link with hints at problems on a similar named model including some input from our own Bill Cahill which I link not wanting to join another forum;

http://www.tuberadioforum.com/t818-sansei-polaris

The cabinet has the usual discolored ivory tint but otherwise excellent. Some Novus #2 got it looking good with a few age cracks of no note. All knobs original.

It is an AA5 plus FM. 6 tubes total. Plugged it it and the AM came right back up and strong. No FM. Bills note about the 17EW8 being the FM oscillator got my attention. Pulled it and reseated it and all was well. The FM drifts like a bottle on the water but useable. It has a short wire FM antenna hanging out and a hand around it helps a lot. I'm in the sticks for FM.

Looking around, I have several Japanese plastic sets including a Lloyds about 2.5' wide with AM/FM/SW and another with a tuning eye. Where did they come from?

Dave A

Those things were a little better than lot of the sets out there at the time. They also made radios for Olympic and Admiral. They used a 50EH5 in the output stage.

Friends of my parents had one of those!